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Affordable Housing: An Annual Bulletin Tracking Housing Costs in King County
December 2002

The Annual Affordable Housing Bulletin is a publication of the King County Office of Budget. Its purpose is to monitor the cost of home purchase and rental housing in King County, particularly in relationship to the King County workforce.

    The Office of Budget
    Steve Call, Director
    Debora Gay, Deputy Director

    Growth Information Team
    Chandler Felt, Supervisor
    Rose Curran, Managing Editor
    Nanette Lowe

    Contributors:
    Allan Johnson, Cynthia Ricks Maccotan and Mary Burki, Housing and Community Development Program

Disclaimer
This document has been edited to improve readability and allow availability on King County's web site. The Affordable Housing: Annual Bulletin is available from King County's Office of Regional and Policy Planning.


Table of Contents
>> Home prices still rising, but cost to buyer may be less
.pdf file (122 KB)
>> 2002 Housing Prices, Income Requirements and Typical Occupations
.pdf file (133 KB)
>> 2002 Highlights of home dales
.pdf file (115 KB)
>> Census 2000 shows increase in proportion of income spent on housing
.pdf file (1116 KB)
>> Homeless find shelter in boxes and trees
.pdf file (116 KB)
>> Housing and school choice
.pdf file (195 KB)
>> Affordable Housing Maps
>> Women find hope at Katherine's House
.pdf file (3,035 KB)
>> New housing survey highlights creative ways to promote affordable housing
.pdf file (112 KB)
>> Vacancies way up, rents decline slightly in 2002
.pdf file (111 KB)
>> Seattle dedicates over $20 million to low income housing in 2001
.pdf file (149 KB)
>> Definition of Terms
.pdf file (115 KB)


Affordable Housing Maps

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Contact Us:
If you have questions, please call King County's Budget Office, Demographics Section at (206) 205-0715 or send e-mail to Rose.Curran@metrokc.gov.

For information on King County Housing Programs contact Allan Johnson at (206) 205-6482.

Portions of the Affordable Housing Bulletin are provided in Adobe Acrobat portable document format (.pdf). In order to view these documents you must have Acrobat Reader software installed on your computer. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on you computer you can obtain the installation file and instructions from the Adobe web site.

Updated: Jan. 2, 2003

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